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...WHISTLER: A BIOGRAPHY...
...image of J.P. Morgan, glaring over his bottle nose out of the gloom, comes as near to Titian as photography can, and the gum-print and pigment-print portraits that Steichen made of himself and his friends, reworking the image with eraser and fingers, seem like deliberate homages to Whistler. The melting halftones, the silvery highlights and atmospheric blurs (he would spit on the lens, or kick the tripod as the shutter clicked) are a poetic reprise of Impressionism, and one finds him cropping the image in imitation of Degas's paintings-themselves influenced by the arbitrary croppings...
...when we last made a number of simultaneous changes in TIME's appearance, we learned that familiarity had bred content in some of our readers. One subscriber wrote: "Outraged betrayed, I went dejectedly off to bed last night. My brooding thoughts: Whistler's Mother with eyebrows plucked, lips rouged and fingernails enameled a brilliant scarlet, the legs of a fine old Chippendale piece replaced with chrome." This week we present another modernization of design. Before readers give us their reactions, brooding or otherwise, I thought I would explain why we considered the renovation important...
...transformation--whether chrysalis or caterpillar--hoping that the eventual product would emerge in its aesthetically appropriate form. Of such able printmakers as Rembrandt, Canaletto, William Blake or Aubrey Beardsley, we cannot say that they shrunk from the beautiful as Oscar Wilde once declared of American artist James McNeil Whistler; "Ah, Whistler! Yes, wonderful of course, but, how he fears beauty! He puts a blot, a mere stain like a petal, a butterfly upon a sheet of paper and dares not touch it, lest its charm be lost. His portraits remind me of the painter in Balzac's Chefd' oeuvre inconnu...
OFTEN Mrs. Jack's propensities for certain art works were meshed with her proclivity for collecting artists as well as art. John Singer Sargent, James McNeil Whistler, and writers such as Henry James and F. Marion Crawford were only a few noteworthies of her creative entourage...